M. Night Shyamalan
M. Night Shyamalan
Manoj Shyamalan, known professionally as M. Night Shyamalan, is an Indian-American film director, screenwriter, producer and occasional actor known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots. His major films include the supernatural thriller The Sixth Sense, the superhero drama thriller Unbreakable, the science fiction thriller Signs, the psychological thriller The Village, the fantasy thriller Lady in the Water, the natural thriller The Happening, the fantasy adventure film The Last Airbender, the sci-fi action-adventure film After Earth, the found-footage horror film...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth6 August 1970
CityMahe, India
CountryUnited States of America
I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
I always thought I was going to be the film guy until I died.
I consider myself an independent filmmaker.
Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].
The beauty is that we can blur film and TV a little bit more.
Saw # Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.
I'm a big believer in our connection to nature.
I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.
So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the elements and what they teach us, and to each other.
I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
That's something we should be taught as kids: To be okay with ourselves.
The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.